YBF EXCLUSIVE: Inside NBA Baller Rashard Lewis' Resort Wedding!

Well how about this chic-to-pretty-damn-casual blissful wedding?! NBA star Rashard Lewis--yeah, the same guy involved in the totally made up love triangle with LeBron James & Savannah--wed his fiancee' Giovanni Fortes last week at a resort in California. And TheYBF.com has the exclusive--and interesting--pics from the wedding & reception.

Louis Vuitton foolery and a beautiful setting this-a-way...

34-year-old Washington Wizards baller Rashard and Giovanni have been together 11 years (there's still hope ladies!) and have 2 uber cute kiddies, Gianna and Rashard Jr. They met while Giovanni was at college in Seattle (where she joined Zeta Phi Beta Sorority in 2001) and Rashard played for the Seattle Supersonics.

The couple wed with their kiddies in tow in front of 250 of their closest friends and fam on August 13th--all in the beautiful Terranea Resort setting in Rancho Palos Verdes.

The bride donned a gorgeous flowing ivory Vera Wang gown--with a sheer black embellished sash--while walking down the aisle to Alicia Keys' "Never Felt This Way." And for the black-and white themed nuptials, the couple's son performed his duties as ring bearer and their daughter rocked her flower girl position.

And after the ceremony, things got extra relaxed. At least one half of the bridal party did. The groom changed into a white button down shirt and white shorts and red sneakers, while his groomsmen changed into red shorts and red Nikes. Meanwhile, the bride changed into yet another wedding gown--this one extra sparkly:

Alrighty...

Guess you gotta let the groom have something for himself...

And the couple cut their California oranges decorated cake--which had edible text written on it documenting their story together-- to kick off the party. Can't say they didn't add their own personal touches to their big day.

Comments

YBF should be ashamed of buying pictures from someone that didn't have permission to sell them. It's a damn shame that sites like this expose personal lives just for the kicks. And to the ghetto bitch that did this just know everyone knows who you are.

I want to congrAtulate the couple,next,I read most of the comments about my sorors non Afro American status,I would like to stay all who hate the "black woman",don't join our organization,attend our schools,an imitate us.....after all one lesson I learned is:just cause you "date us",doesn't make you us",keep that in mind as you try an de-fame the "black women"Thanks,an congrats again

I want to congrAtulate the couple,next,I read most of the comments about my sorors non Afro American status,I would like to stay all who hate the "black woman",don't join our organization,attend our schools,an imitate us.....after all one lesson I learned is:just cause you "date us",doesn't make you us",keep that in mind as you try an de-fame the "black women"Thanks,an congrats again

IN THE FIRST PIC IS THAT THE TACKY ASS SEE THROUGH SIDED DRESS EVELYN HOZADA SHOWED OFF ON BBW THIS IS THE GHETTO WEDDING OF THE CENTURY BUT LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL SO IF ITS THEIR THING MORE POWER TO THEM LADIES THOUGH IN THE FUTURE YOUR KIDS BEING AT YOUR WEDDING IS GHETTO AS FUCK HAVE THE BABIES AFTER THE MARRIAGE PLEASE. THANKS. YOUR SON AND DAUGHTER SHOULD NOT BE FLOWER GIRLS AND RING BEARERS AT YOUR WEDDING

Bitch, please stfu and stfd somewhere, in the real non-perfect world, shit happens and they ended up with 2 kids before they were married...So what you saying even thought they had 2 kids they shouldn't have let them participate in the wedding because hey "technically they were suppose to come afterwards"...Bitch get a clue. What kind of parents would they be if they didn't allow their children to be apart of the wedding....That would be taking FAKE above and beyond ridiculous...Those kids are here, there is no hiding that.
FYI, even some of the classiest and richest ppl have children before marriage so stop labeling everything as "GHETTO" expand ur damn vocabulary...

HOODRAT BITCH I DIDNT SAY THEIR KIDS SHOULD NOT PARTICIPATE I SAID COUPLES NEED TO START GETTING MARRIED BEFORE THEY START FAMILIES YOUR KIDS SHOULDNT BE IN THE WEDDING THEY SHOULD COME AFTER YOUR MARRIED AND WOMEN NEED TO BE PRACTICING A LITTLE SELF PRESERVATION AND STOP SETTLING FOR THE BABY MOMMA TITTLE BEFORE THEY ARE GIVIN THE WIFE TITTLE EXPAND YOUR LIFE BITCH AND STOP BEING ONE OF THESE SIMPLE ASS LOW SELF WORTH HAVING BLACK BITCHES THAT RUN RAMPANT. JUST BECAUSE YOUR MOTHER DID NOT WANT BETTER FOR HERSELF DOES NOT MEAN THERE IS NOT A RIGHT AND A WRONG WAY TO BE . NO IT IS NOT A PERFECT WORLD BUT IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE THE WAY IT IS IF YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO HAVE STANDARDS DUMB CUNT NOW YOU STFD TRICK ASS BITCH

"BLACK WOMAN!!UNTIL YOU DO RIGHT BY THE BLACK MAN , EVERYTHING YOU DO WILL FAIL!!!!" until then we will continue marrying the Latinas , the white women, the Mexican women, the Asian women, everything but black women. CLEAN YOUR MOTHER FUCKING ATTITUDE UP, ACT LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE, STOP TRYING TO RULE THE HOUSE HOLD, STOP ALL THAT BITCHING AND THAT HOOD LIKE MENTALITY, STOP ACTING LIKE THEM BASKETBALL WIVES ON TV, STOP FUCKING THEM HOOD ASSS NIGGGASSSSSSS WITH THEY PANTS OFF THEY ASSS AT 25!!!!!!!!!!!Then brothas might marry your assses
STOP WEARING THAT SILKY ASSSS WEAVE IN YOUR GODDAMN HEAD THINKING IT MAKE U LOOK SEXYYYYYYYYY, ACTING LIKE A DAMN CHOCOLATE COVERED WHITE WOMEN and why should we want a black woman who act black but try to look like a white woman, why not just get a real white woman
THIS IS WHY I WISH I WAS AROUND IN THE 70'S !!!!!!!would've got one of them natural foxy SEXY ass black women, THATS LOOK BLACKKKKKKK AND DOWN FOR THEY MAN!!!!!!!now in 2011 u look at black women, they got that ugly ass silk shit in they head, they outta shape , they talk shit to black men, THEY LIKE BUM ASS MEN , THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKK. i mean Goddamnnnn man, this is what our generation is left with
Im ashamed , that me as a black man HAVE THESE TYPE OF WOMEN TO BE A REFLECTION OF US. GOD MUST HAVE CURSED US AS BLACK MEN TO HAVE SUCH LOW GRADE OF BLACK WOMEN!!
BUT UNTIL THEN WE WILL CONTINUE TO MARRY THE Giovanni's , THE Ramirez's,The Rodriguez, The Fotes,The Gonzales etc!!!!!!!!!!!

First let me say congrats to the couple because that is what this post is about. Now............. Mr. LetsGetit, why are you here on this site (JUST a question…… no need to curse me out) 99.9% of the women on here are African American women that you are either reading about or the ones commenting on this site. If you hate us so much find a site where the people in it are not the same color as yourself. I find it funny how you’re so quick to put down black women down and say we are trying so hard to be like white women. What about all the white women (among other races) who are trying to be more like us black women? They want a tan; they want fuller lips, they walk around with butt pads. I am sorry that you do not understand Black Women and why WE HAVE TO BE SO STRONG. I wouldn’t change the fact that I am a BLACK WOMAN for all the money in the world. I could write a thousand and one things wrong with our black men but you would only defend their actions. Love who you want to love……. Just don’t put your people down because you chose not to stay within your race. We all have the right to choose!
Side note...... We are our own worst enemies, no need for any other race to hate, belittle or look down on us; we are doing a fine job of that on our own. We as a people have to learn to respect one another.

I mean black woman you just made one of the SHITTEST arguments , quite repetitive if you ask me. Truth is , i see more black women with weaves , colored contacts, skin bleaching,white jesus loving, perm having , BLONDE HAIR,butt implants, black women gettin asss implants as well nowwwwwww check the news more black women dying from hood implants in the asss than any other race of women THATS A FACT!!!yea its women that get lip and butt implants but THE SHIT DONT COME CLOSEEEEEEEEEEEEE TO WHAT BLACK WOMEN DO TO LOOK LIKE WHITE AND LATIN WOMEN!!!!!!!Shit tanning is natural, anybody can tan, but everybody cant bleach !!!!I never said i hate black women
I just want you to do better black woman!!But the reason why i brought these black women up is because they mad at brother for dating latinas, CLEAN UP YOUR GODDAMN ACT THEN!!!!

This sounds more like a mexican chick, LOL...but whatevs....do you Do right by the black man, LOFL......That goes both ways......I say a white, latino or any other non african race can take yall trifli asses they can deal with your BS. LOFL

Shit i never said you should date black men lol, you think i give a fuck if you not attracted to black men lmao hell no. I promote interracial dating to the fullest more white women and latin women for me. Take your bickering fuckery ass over to the white man!!!!!!!!You black women been fucking them and putting them on the pedestal since slavery anyways. Be goneeeeee

YOUR RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING LETS GET IT GOD DID CURSE YOU AS A BLACK MAN BECAUSE BLACK MEN ARE THE ONLY RACE OF MAN ON THE PLANET WHO HAVE NOT YET FIGURED OUT HOW TO BE MEN AND NEVER WILL. BLACK MEN WHO ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO EVEN REACH ADULTHOOD NEVER BECOME MEN YOUR NOT BUILT THAT WAY YOU WERE BORN TO BE SLAVES WETHER BY THE WHITE MAN OR BY YOURSELVES YOU GET MONEY AND THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS BUY BLING OR A CAR YET YOU LIVE IN YOUR MOMMAS BASEMENT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY OR THINGS THAT APPRECIATE IN VALUE YOUR BORN TO COON YOU KNOW NOTHING ELSE YOU WOULD RATHER PUT GOLD IN YOUR MOUTH THAN FOOD IN YOUR CHILDS, YOU CANT KEEP JOBS WOULD RATHER LIVE OFF YOUR WOMAN AND THEN CALL HER UN SUPPORTIVE WHEN HER STRONG ASS GETS TIRED OF YOUR LAZY USELESS ASS PLAYING XBOX ON HER SOFA ALL DAY , YOU STAND ON THE CORNER WITH YOUR BOYS ALL DAY COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW THE WHITE MAN WONT GIVE A BROTHER A BREAK WHEN YOUR ASS SHOULD BE ON JOB INTERVIEWS GETTING YOUR RESUME TOGETHER AND PULLING YOUR PANTS UP ON YOUR ASHEY ASSES SO PEOPLE LOOK AT YOU AS MORE THAN THE ANIMAL YOU ARE I SEE A GROUP OF WHITE MEN TOGETHER AND THEY LOOK LIKE A GROUP OF MEN. I SEE A GROUP OF BLACK MEN TOGETHER AND THEY LOOK LIKE A GANG .YOU CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO THE WORLD EXCEPT BASTARD CHILDREN AND AIDES AND CRIME YOU TALK ABOUT BLACK WOMEN IN THE OLD DAYS TAKING CARE OF THEIR MEN AND COOKING. WELL BLACK MEN BACK THEN TOOK CARE OF THEIR WOMEN AS MEN TOOK CARE OF THEIR KIDS HELD THEIR HEADS UP AND DIDNT BLAME THE WHITE MAN FOR ANYTHING EVEN THOUGH HE HAD EVERY RIGHT TO HE JUST TOOK WHAT THE WHITE MAN DID USED IT AS THE AMMO HE NEEDED TO DO BETTER AND SUCCEED ABOVE AND BEYOND ANYTHING WHITES SAID HE COULD. YOU RAPPING BASKETBALL DUNKIN CHICKEN EATING BABY MOTHER DODGING CRIP WALKING NIGGS TODAY DONT STAND FOR SHIT YOU DONT DESERVE TO LIVE YOUR PIECES OF SHIT AND I FOR ONE WOULDNT CARE IF YOU ALL DRIVE BY SHOT EACH OTHER INTO OBLIVION

Well damn black woman, is that so , i heard a sayin from a black woman and it went something like this “A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women” now what does that say about black women?? look at our communities ,look at our condition, look at who our first teachers (the black woman) CHOOSE TO BE THEY MAN!!!!Look at the trendy shit black women create throughout the community. Look at HOW THESE YOUNG MEN HAVE TO ACT IN ORDER TO GET A BLACK WOMAN. you gotta be a clown or a thug ass nigga to get a black woman or else you lame. I MEAN YOU ALL CREATED THIS SHIT, YOU ARE THE REASON THESE NIGGAS MATERIALISE SHIT, AND ACT LIKE SLAVES, IT WAS THE BLACK WOMAN WHO TAUGHT THEY BOYS IN SLAVERY TO FEAR THE WHITE MAN AND LOOK DOWN AT THEY FEEET, IT WAS THE BLACK WOMAN WHO PUT WHITE JESUS UP IN EVERY GODDAMN KITCHEN ACROSS AMERICA, IT WAS THE BLACK WOMAN WHO THROUGH THEY MEN OUT OF THE HOUSE SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN AID THEM, IT WAS THE BLACK WOMAN WHO WAS FOOLED BY THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT, BLACKKKKKKKKKKKKKK WOMEN ARE THE ONES WHO SENSITIZE AND FEMINIZE THEY BOYS!!!!Messing with men they knowwwwwwwwwww have no potential of being a father,nor have the potential of taking care of her, BLACK WOMEN OPEN THEY LEGS FOR THOSE TYPE OF MEN ,THE ONES THAT LEAVE THEY ASS FOR DEAD AFTER SHE TELL HIM SHE PREGNANT, BLACK WOMEN LOVE BEING SINGLE MOTHER TO CONTINUE THE TREND SHOWING THAT THEY DONT NEED A MANNNNNNNNN
A BLACK WOMAN WILL JUMP OVER A GOOD EDUCATED BROTHER, A RESPECTABLE BROTHA, JUST TO GET TO A THUG ASS NIGGA OR A CLOWN ASS COMEDIAN NIGGA!!!!!!!BUT YOU WANT TO BLAME BLACK MEN FOR THIS SHIT???
SHIT EVEN IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM A FEMALE CHOOSES A MATE THAT CAN HUNT THE BEST AND PROTECT HER AND HER YOUNG.
BLACK WOMENNNNNNNNNNNN CANT EVEN DO WHAT A DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ANIMAL IS CAPABLE OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BUT YOUR FEMINIST ASSS WANNA BLAME BROTHAS FOR THIS SHITTTT
SITTTTTTTTT YOUR MAMMYYYYYYYYYYYY HATTIE MCDANIEL ASSSS DOWN BLACK WOMANNNNNNNNNN,

DO ME A FAVOR BROTHER GOOGLE HATTIE MCDANIEL AND THEN EXPLAIN TO GOFETCHIT HOW THAT STATEMENT WAS SUUPOSE TO OFFEND HER, SHE SHOULD BE HONORED TO BE CALLED HATTIE MCDANIEL NOT MANY WOMEN TODAY HAVE HER CLASS OR DESERVE HER RESPECT IN ANY RACE

Man I absolutely love you too going back and forth! This is pure truth and entertainment from both sides. You too should get together and write a book or create a website. To make our people aware of thing we need to do to better ourselves.

Man I absolutely love you too going back and forth! This is pure truth and entertainment from both sides. You too should get together and write a book or create a website. To make our people aware of thing we need to do to better ourselves.

Man I absolutely love you too going back and forth! This is pure truth and entertainment from both sides. You too should get together and write a book or create a website. To make our people aware of thing we need to do to better ourselves.

THEN TELL YOUR BROTHERS TO STEP UP AND RAISE THEIR SONS TO BE MEN DONT LEAVE IT TO BLACK WOMEN TO DO BECAUSE EVEN THE BEST OF THEM CANT DO IT. I AGREE IN PART THAT BLACK WOMEN DO PASS BY THE EDUCATED BROTHERS FOR THE THUGS AND IT AS A WOMAN HAS ALWAYS BOTHERED ME. IF YOUR GOING TO DATE A THUG THEN DONT COMPLAIN WHEN ALL YOU BECOME IS A BABY MOMMA ON WELFARE. A LOT OF WOMEN THINK THEY CAN CHANGE A MAN INTO WHAT THEY WANT. THEY WANT A THUG THAT WANTS AND LOVES THEM ALONE. SORRY SISTAH IT JUST DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. BUT BROTHERS ALSO HAVE TO LEARN TO TURN TO THEIR SISTERS AND NOT ON THEM. THE BLACK FAMILY IS STILL A STRONG ENTITY AND EVERY STRONG BLACK MAN WHO HAS A STRONG BLACK WOMAN BY HIS SIDE IS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. LOOK AT HOW OSSIE DAVIS AND RUBY DEE WHERE, MALCOLM AND BETTY , MARTIN AND CORETTA. THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN BOTH SEXES WOMEN DONT SUPPORT THEIR MEN ANYMORE AND MEN DONT HAVE THE SENSE OF PRIDE AND THE STRENGTH THEY USE TO, YOU SAID THAT IN SLAVERY IT WAS WOMEN WHO TOLD THEIR SONS TO FEAR THE WHITE MAN AND LOOK DOWN AT THEIR FEET WELL YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU WOULD DO AS A MOTHER IF YOUR HUSBAND WAS KILLED IN YOUR FACE OR SOLD AWAY AND ALL YOU HAVE LEFT IS THIS CHILD YOU KNOW YOUR HELPLESS TO PROTECT IM SURE MOTHERS INSTINCT WAS TO TELL HER CHILD TO DO WHATEVER HE NEEDED TO DO TO LIVE BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY YOU WOULD ALSO KNOW THAT WHEN THOSE SLAVES WERE ALONE THOSE WOMEN CAME UP WITH AMAZING PLANS TO INSTILL STRENGTH AND PRIDE IN THEIR SONS IN THE ABSENCE OF THEIR MEN DONT FORGET THAT ALL THE BLACK MEN THAT ESCAPED TO FREEDOM DID SO LARGLY IN PART WITH THE HELP AND INSTINCTS OF THEIR WOMEN. THROUGHOUT HISTORY IT HAS BEEN THE BLACK WOMEN WHO SUFFERED THE MOST YET COMPLAINS THE LEAST , YOU TALK ABOUT THE BLACK MAN HOW HARD HE HAS IT BUT WE HAD TWO STRIKES BEING BLACK AND BEING A WOMAN , THE BIGOTRY YOU FACED ENEDED WHEN YOU CAME HOME OURS DIDNT WE HAD TO FACE HATE FROM WHITES AND SEXISM FROM OUR MEN TWO BATTLES AT ONCE TWO WE STILL FIGHT TODAY, NO ONE IS BETER THAN THE OTHER AND WE BOTH NEED EACH OTHER.

"IF YOUR GOING TO DATE A THUG THEN DONT COMPLAIN WHEN ALL YOU BECOME IS A BABY MOMMA ON WELFARE."
Exactly!!That's all im saying stop getting mad at sucessful brothers when they date outside when you pass them up every damn day for a old fool ass nigga!!!!!!That's all im saying, most black women i know including in my family mess with comedian or thug ass niggas, they'll go with a educated , strong minded brother every now and then but they never stay with them, they never even have kids by the brotha. But they open they legs and have kids by the silliest niggaaassssssss!!! Then when she in her mid 30's with 5 kids and shit, and she see the educated brotha she pass by with a white or latina woman she mad as shittttttt!!!!Black women create thugs and this trendy degenerate shit in the community
"THE BLACK FAMILY IS STILL A STRONG ENTITY AND EVERY STRONG BLACK MAN WHO HAS A STRONG BLACK WOMAN BY HIS SIDE IS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH."
I agree and disagree with this, look i dont romanticize and sugarcoat anything, the black family as a collect is not strong, goddamnit its not even a family cuss the man isnt thereeeeeeeeeee the woman couldnt even choose a real man with some morals and responsibility. Alot of pro black niggas like to be on that silly fantacy shit as if we gone someday get it together and BE POWERFUL AND LOVE EACH OTHER. the shit is unrealistic !!it aint happening in the black community only way i see shit changing is if the white man start back whooping our ass so we have NO CHOICE BUT TO BE WITH OTHER ANOTHER AND DEPEND ON EACH OTHER, or It might have to take a God to wipe us out and startt this shit overrrrrrrrrrr sorry but that what its going to take for black people as a collective to change!!